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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Amazon employees were getting urinary tract infections because they weren't allowed bathroom breaks. I have friends who worked at the warehouses and they confirmed it.
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Sorry. As sincere as I believe you are (and as sincere as you want to believe your friends are), I can't put a lot of stock in the transitive property of anecdotal workplace complaints. I have no problem believing the number of bathroom breaks might be limited to prevent abuse, though.
I've worked in many seriously demanding (and micro-managed), labor-intensive warehouse jobs in my life. I may have despised some of the bosses/owners, but not once did I consider myself as being "abused". Actually spending the vast majority of an 8, 10, 12 hour shift sweating through your clothes, and not being able to shut a production line down 15 times a shift to go to the bathroom is not actually abuse. It's work. Not everything our society needs to function can be done from behind a desk with an hour's paid lunch and four breaks. No matter how dreamy it sounds.